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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS SELLING, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH L. SELLING, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

TROUSERS-SHAPING DEVICE...

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,575, dated November 19, 1889.

Application filed March 25, 1889. Serial No. 304,727. (No model.)

T (0 whom it may concern: when the spring is at rest, the spring being Be it known that I, LOUIS SELLING, a citizen extended and under tension when either part of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the is moved upon the other. county of \Vayne and State of Michigan,have The parts being thus constructed, they are -5 5 invented certain new and useful lmproveintended to operate as follows: The strap is ments in Trousers-Shape Perfecters, of which secured upon the leg of the wearer, preferthe following is a specification, reference beably in such position as to encircle the top ing had therein to the accompanying drawof the stocking and act as a garter or stockings. ing-supporter, the lower ends of the arms 0 IO This invention relates to new and useful C extending a little distance below the stay improvements in a device for perfecting the secured in the bottom of the trousers-leg, as shape of trousers when upon the wearer, and shown in Fig. 1. in dotted lines. The spring commonly called a trousers shape peris then put under tension by engaging the footer. spring clamps E into the eyes F, and holds I 15 The invention consists in the pecular comthe trousers down into their proper position, binations and the construction of parts, all as giving them a perfect shape, drawing out any more fullyhereinafterdescribed and claimed. wrinkles or the appearance of bagging at the In the drawings which accompany this knees. At the same time the pressure is upspecification, Figure 1 .is a perspective view ward upon the garter, and thus tends at all 20 of my device as in use. Fig. 2 is a perspectimes to hold up the stocking. The spring tive view of my device detached. Fig. 3 is a allows of lifting the pants, as required when vertical central section through one of the bending the knees or in stooping down. spring-arms. Fig.4E is an enlarged cross-sec- I preferably make the spring-clamp E, as tion on line X X. in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a deshown, of asingle piece of spring-wire secured 25 tached perspective view of the spring-catch at its middle point to the lower end of the and stay. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a part b, and bent so that the parts 0 and c modification of my device for wear with boots. cross each other, and then bent upwardly Fig. 7 is a detached view of the catch and into the arms (1, in which notches e are made,

stay as in Fig. 6. adapted to be secured in the sides of the eye 30 A is a strap, preferably elastic, provided F of the stay.

with a suitable catch or buckle B, and of suit- Any other form of catch may be used, such able size to clasp about the leg of the wearer. as that shown in Fig. 7, wherein f is the O C are spring-arms engaging at their top stay provided with a spring-latch g, engaging with the strap. They may be fixedly secured into a hole h in the enlarged end of the arm 3 5 thereto or slidingly engaged therewith, either I), and the end of the arm abuts against the by a buckle or a friction-bar D, as shown in stops i, which receive the thrust of the spring. the drawings. The spring-arms are provided The modification shown in Fig. 6 is designed at their lower ends with a suitable springto be used upon boots, and differs from the catch E, adapted to engage with a suitable device before described only in the fact that 0 o eye F, provided in the stay G, secured in the it is made vertically adjustable by means of inner side of the trousers at or near the hot the barj, slidingly engaging into a slot is in tom. The arms 0 O consist of two parts a the bearing-plate Z, secured upon the strap, a and I), slidingly engaging upon each other, spring-latch on being provided to enter the preferably of semicircular cross-section, as holes in the bar and hold it in its adjusted 5 5 shown in Fig. 4, and these are held together position.

by the spiral spring 0, the upper end of which Various modifications in detail may be reis secured to the upper end of the part 1'), sorted to Without departing from the spirit of while the lower end is secured to the lower the invention. end of the part a. This construction allows WVhat I claim as my invention is 10:: 50 of the sliding up of the part b and the sliding 1. In a garment shaping or holding device, down of the part a, the normal position being the combination, with a belt, of the springarm consisting of two parts, one of which is connected with said belt and the other provided with attachment for the trousers, and aspring attached at one end to each part and arranged between the belt and the trousers end of the device, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a garment-shaping device, the combination of the spring-arms, each consisting of two parts slidin gl y secured together within a spring attached at one end to each of said parts, the buckle secured to the upper part and the spring-clamp secured to the lower part, and the stay secured to the garment, substantially as described.

3. In a garment-shaping device, the combination of spring-arms, each consisting of two parts slidingly secured Within a spring attached at one end to each of said parts, the buckle secured to the upper part and engaging with a securing-strap, a spring-clamp secured to the lower part, and a stay secured in the garment, substantially as described.

.4. In a garment-sl1aping device, a springarm consisting of two parts and the spring connecting said two parts, the buckle secured to one part and the spring-clamp secured to the lower end of the other part, consisting of the spring-wire connected at its middle to the bar and bent into the arms 0 and d, in combination with the stay provided with the eye F, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this lth day of March, 1889,

LOUIS SELLING. 

